Word: yamada
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rout. The Kwantung Army, under Russia-hating General Otozo Yamada, showed that its reputation had been won with propaganda. Nowhere did it offer effective opposition...
...Yamada's army proved to have few aircraft, and no worth-while outer defenses. Whether the Kwantung Army, long expert at saber-rattling, had decided to put up or shut up, the Russians had already approached strategic points in Manchuria...
...being planned for Berlin. In Berlin and in Rome the newspapers were full of vague portents as to Japan's part in the coming grand offensive (see col. 2). Yosuke Matsuoka chose to treat his trip more as a holiday. On his first day out of Tokyo, at Yamada, he walked down the street to a barbershop and had his hair trimmed around the neck and ears. Later he met reporters and told them that he had given up wearing his hair Prussian-style, an affectation he assumed when Japan resigned from the League of Nations...